Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) can provide rapid, significant improvements in severe symptoms of several mental health conditions. ECT is used to treat: Severe depression, particularly when accompanied by detachment from reality (psychosis), a desire to commit suicide or refusal to eat.
DYMALLY, Mervyn Malcolm. Biography. A Caribbean immigrant, a longtime member of the California legislature, and the first black elected to statewide office in California, Mervyn Dymally represented a southern Los Angeles County district in the U.S. House of Representatives for 12 years.
He died of stomach cancer in 1995. His song Bury the Bottle With Me is referenced in the 1975 Stephen King novel Salem's Lot ., and in the film of the Stephen King novella A Good Marriage, A Tombstone Every Mile is heard playing on car radio.urless began his music career in 1948, in Ware, Massachusetts, where he hosted a radio show and toured with a local band called the Trail Blazers..